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That’s right, it’s this very Saturday! ICE and SuperCute! are hosting a release party for the latest issue of Craft: Magazine! Festivities are at the Youngblood Gallery on Saturday from 1-5pm. We’ll have snax, drinks and a fun crafty project for you to try out. See you there!

Woo! Part two of the Atlanta Indie City Guide is up! This part is all east side, baby!

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We’ve hinted over the last couple of weeks about a top secret project, and now we can spill! SuperCute! submitted an Atlanta Indie City Guide to Indie Fixx, and the first installment was posted today! Woo! this was so much fun to put together!

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Woah. My Lunch Kits got mentioned twice this week on Indie Fixx! You can check it out here and here! This has been a presstacular week! While we’re on the subject, SuperCute! just finished up a secret project for Indie Fixx! I’m not going to say too much more about it just now, but here is a little preview:

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OK, it was more like…going out to dinner and realizing we all wanted to get some things at the Kroger, but still. We went to RuSans for some cheap sushi, sake and tempura to gab and dish and be really girly and it was fantastical! Hanging out with Liz and Lori is so therapeutic. After dinner, we walked over to the Kroger and decided we needed to take some pictures. Due to various forces working against us, this is the only one that really came out. I sort of love it! Look at all those huge bags of dog food behind us. That’s art, my friends!

We also had a somewhere stalkery moment at the store, where Liz and Lori spotted Leah and Mark doing some latenight shopping. They only knew these folks through the internet, and there was a lot of debate about whether we should say hello to them after a bit too much sake. We decided not to, which I think was a good move. When Liz got home, she left a post over on their blog about seeing them! Maybe next time we go on a sushi trip, they can come with! If the blog is any indication, these folks are hilarious and also supernice.

Hey, also, I added a little Twitter doodad over there on the right. I think it shows just my latest Tweet, but you can scroll through them. How cute is that??

We had a little craft nite over at Lori’s tonite to make more mustache glasses, and it was great! We got SO MANY made! I scored a ton on a recent trip to the thrift store, and Liz found a set of 4 with stars all around the tops that I am kind of in love with. When we make the stencils for these, we end up with lots of tiny, sticky-backs mustaches. I am surprised pictures like the one above haven’t happened before this!

The other day, I was at Youngblood Gallery gabbing with Liz and Ally about the mustache glasses. Liz and I were at a complete loss. We both felt like there was a delicious pun to be made here and had no idea what it was. I don’t know why we didn’t ask Ally sooner! Within minutes, she had suggested Glasstaches! Of course! DONE.

After the glasses were done, we got to gabbing about SuperCute! stuff and came up with some plans. We have 3 Mission: Possibles in the works! The next one is this very Tuesday! We’ll get to planning that this very week! More to come.

This weekend, I feel like I ran around town crazily!

Friday night was a happy hour at Manuel’s Tavern with a bunch of friends. It felt like it had been 100 years since I’d just hung out with folks to eat, drink and gab. It was delightful and much, much needed!!

Saturday, I got up a little later than intended but managed to get a bunch of things done. Dave and I rode bikes up to Outback in Little 5 to get new tubes. The ones we had on our bikes were really tready and slow, and it was time to change them up. It takes them about an hour to swap out the tires, so we hit Arden’s Garden for juice shots (yum!) and Rag O Rama where I got a gigantic pair of sunglasses(yay!)!

We realized at the bike shop that we hadn’t really thought this new tire thing through. How were we going to get the old ones home? I will tell you how: we carried them purse-style over our shoulders. It was a pretty hilarious ride home, with a pair of tubes hitting my left knee and falling off of my right shoulder. Luckily, we live only about a mile from the bike shop!

That evening, there was an ice cream social at Cosmo’s! OMG. They put together an amazing vegan sundae bar. I had 2 sorts of ice creams and tons of toppings. Never has a bellyache been more worth it! I got to see a whole bunch of awesome folks and do a little junk food shopping while I was there. Here is a picture of how jam-packed Cosmo’s was last nite:

The obvious thing to do after a huge bowl of ice cream is 9pm sushi dinner at RuSans, so I grabbed Cody and that’s what we did! And it was wonderful! I got home all pumped from sundaes and sushi, so Dave and I watched a couple of movies: V for Vendetta and King of Kong. They were both really awesome! If I ever see that Billy Mitchell fella, though, I will be giving him a piece of my mind. Maybe I’ll run into him when I’m in SoFla this coming weekend! Hollywood isn’t that far from where my mom lives….

This morning, I got up and cut out a big pile of Lunch Kits! I’ll get to sewing them later this week, I hope! They’ve been calling next week at my dayjob “Hell Week,” so nothing is certain. We’ll see, I guess. After a morning of fabric, I picked up Liz and we headed over to Youngblood to drop off ‘Stache Glasses and Votives for the shop! Hurrah! On the way, we ran by Cosmo’s. The bowls, spoons and cups they used for the ice cream social were compostable, so I volunteered our bin for the waste.

After an errandy morning, I rushed home to watch Big Baby! I’m pretty much busting I’m so proud of Dave. I made a batch of enchiladas for a late lunch and we sort of bummed around all day. I guess what I’m saying is that this weekend was totally busy and totally perfect. And now: ROCK BAND!

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The Indie Craft Experience was awesome, as always! The past couple of days have been just sort of a blur of crafting and good friends.

OK, first, obviously, let’s talk about Friday night’s preparty! Holy crap, you guys. This came off wonderfully! I don’t think I can thank Ashley, Lori and Idalys enough times for the amazing vegan eats! Folks were amazed when we told them all the snacks were vegan! These ladies were more generous than we could have ever asked for, and you really helped make the party so special. Here is where I have to admit that some of the leftover dip from the party sustained us through the day yesterday and I may have just finished up some mini cranberry-orange scones for breakfast. Maybe.

We also had awesome live music by DP3, who also played at ICE the next day! I am pretty sure we couldn’t have pulled off parts of this party without Davis from DP3. He sure did not sign up to be the MC for the night, but he did a fantastical job! Davis helped us transition between the music and showing the Handmade Nation trailer and helped wrangle folks when it was time to announce the Alternative Apparel t-shirt contest winners!

OMG AND! Faythe Levine, the woman responsible for Handmade Nation and owner of The Paper Boat Boutique wants to carry my Lunch Kits in her store!! AAAAAAH! I was completely wound up from all the good vibes when I got home, so Dave and I watched Battlestar Galactica and I tried to sit still.

On to the show!

OK, I’ll get this part out of the way first. It was hot. Like…brutally hot. Whenever I asked someone how they were doing, they would say, “Hot, but good.” There, done!

I know that after every ICE I say that this one was the best one yet, and this one was the best one yet! This was the best group of vendors I’ve seen at any show in Atlanta so far. Folks traveled to come here! My only regret about the show was that I never had the energy to make the rounds and meet as many folks as I would have liked. I didn’t even really get to visit anyone that wasn’t in the immediate vicinity. I only saw Leslie from The Green Wardrobe at the very end, when she was carrying stuff to her car!

The day is sort of a blur, but everyone was super duper nice. We had awesome neighbors, too! We were right beside some of our favorite folks and just across the way from the super-sweet Miss Alison! Our other across the way neighbors were Missy and Raoul! It was great to gab with them. We had Flickr Confession, wherein we admitted that we love looking at each others’ photostreams, especially the cat pictures. They had a brilliant idea about this picture of my kitcats that I am totally going to put into action! More to come on that once I get it together!

Oooh ooh! I did get a chance to visit Jeanette from The Vegan Dish’s booth. She wanted a Lunch Kit and was into a trade!! I got a beautiful serving dish printed with a swirl and tiny stars and a bunny butt magnet!! Best. Trade. EVER. She, of course, took the Squirrel Lunch Kit. I was happy to see it go to such a great home!

So I guess that’s it! Christy and Shannon put on another kickass event! They are the best! Hurrah!

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Oh! While I’m thinking about it….a few folks yesterday asked me questions about Atlanta Craft Mafia stuff, so I just wanted to reiterate here that Liz, Lori and I decided to leave the ACM and focus on SuperCute!. You can read my original post about it here. If you do have questions for the ACM, you can email the ladies directly at atlcraftmafia@gmail.com.